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CMOS sensors were successfully implemented in the STAR tracker [1]. LHC experiments have shown that efficient b tagging, reconstruction of displaced vertices and identification of disappearing tracks are necessary. An improved vertex…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-21 Nicolas T. Fourches , Geraldine Hallais , Charles Renard

This paper presents a study of vertex tracking with a beam hodoscope consisting of three layers of monolithic pixel sensors in SOI technology on high-resistivity substrate. We study the track extrapolation accuracy, two-track separation and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-04 Marco Battaglia , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Dietrich Liko , Serena Mattiazzo , Devis Pantano

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC studies the new state of matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions and the spin structure of the nucleon in collisions of polarized protons. In order to improve the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Frank Simon

When testing and calibrating particle detectors in a test beam, accurate tracking information independent of the detector being tested is extremely useful during the offline analysis of the data. A general-purpose Silicon Beam Tracker (SBT)…

In order to fully exploit the Physics potential of future e+ e- linear collider, a Vertex Detector providing high resolution track reconstruction is required. Hybrid Silicon pixel detectors are an attractive option for the sensor technology…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Battaglia , M. Caccia , S. Borghi , R. Campagnolo , W. Kucewicz , H. Palka , A. Zalewska

ALICE 3 is the proposed next-generation heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), envisioned for operation during Run 5. The tracking system of ALICE 3 will consist of a high-precision vertex detector integrated into a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-21 Sanghoon Lim

The study of hadronic structure has been carried out for many years. Generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs) give broad information on the internal structure of hadrons. Combining GPDs and high-energy scattering experiments, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 Gang Xie , Wei Kou , Qiang Fu , Zhenyu Ye , Xurong Chen

The ePIC detector is being designed as a general-purpose detector to deliver the full physics program of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) in BNL USA. Particle Identification (PID) plays a crucial role in the EIC physics program. Over a wide…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-07 Chandradoy Chatterjee

The DEPFET collaboration develops highly granular, ultra-transparent active pixel detectors for high-performance vertex reconstruction at future collider experiments. The characterization of detector prototypes has proven that the key…

A central tracker based on silicon microstrip sensors has been envisaged for the e+e- linear collider experiments. A full simulation program based on GEANT4 has been developed to study performance of the tracker. We report some preliminary…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Iwasaki

We report on the development of 3D silicon sensors at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). The sensor involves columnar electrodes (5 um in diameter) of both doping types, etched from the same wafer side. The p+…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-14 Kuo Ma , De Zhang , Shengjia He , Tian-ao Wang , Han Li , Yu Nie , Xiuxia Wang , Jinlan Peng , Zheng Liang , Xiang Li , Wenhua Shi , Manwen Liu , Chuan Liao , Zheng Li , Zebo Tang , Yanwen Liu

Lepton scattering is an established ideal tool for studying inner structure of small particles such as nucleons as well as nuclei. As a future high energy nuclear physics project, an Electron-ion collider in China (EicC) has been proposed.…

We are constructing a Silicon Vertex Tracker detector (VTX) for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. Our main motivation is to enable measurements of heavy flavor production (charm and beauty) in p+p, p+d and A+A collisions. Such data will…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-04-30 Rachid Nouicer

Pixel Detectors, as the current technology of choice for the innermost vertex detection, have reached a stage at which large detectors have been built for the LHC experiments and a new era of developments, both for hybrid and for monolithic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-06-23 Norbert Wermes

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the CERN LHC experiment optimized for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterization of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. To achieve the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-30 Domenico Colella

This document is submitted as input to the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (ESPPU). The U.S.-based Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) aims at understanding how the complex dynamics of confined quarks and gluons makes up nucleons,…

For operation at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the ATLAS experiment is building a new all-silicon inner tracker (ITk). The production and testing of thousands of silicon pixel and strip modules is required to cover the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-23 D. Hohov , A. Lounis , A. Falou , E. - L. Gkougkousis , A. Bassalat

The Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), a proposed next-generation $e^+e^-$ collider to enable high-precision studies of the Higgs boson and potential new physics, imposes rigorous demands on detector technologies, particularly the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-02 Jiahao Hu , Ruiyang Zhang , Zhiliang Chen , Yunpeng Lu , Qun Ouyang , Lailin Xu

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a concept for a future linear collider that would provide e$^+$e$^-$ collisions at up to 3 TeV. The physics aims require a detector system with excellent jet energy and track momentum resolution, highly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-05 Florian Pitters

Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD) equip the two central layers of the Inner Tracking System of the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Main results of systematic studies of detector performance including noise, gain, drift speed and charge collection…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Emanuele Biolcati